Unaware of the BREAKING NEWS, I had just posted some comments in my recent diary – Secular Opposition Leader Assassinated In Islamic Tunisia.

Tunisian President’s party resigns from coalition

(France24) – The secular party of Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki on Sunday withdrew its three ministers from the Islamist-led government, saying its demands for cabinet changes had not been met. “We have been saying for a week that if the foreign and justice ministers were not changed, we would withdraw from the government,” party official Samir Ben Amor told Reuters.

The decision by Marzouki’s Congress for the Republic Party deals a further blow to Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali’s government, already reeling from last week’s assassination of secular opposition leader Chokri Belaid.

PM Jebali, a moderate within his Ennahda party, threatened to quit and warned of chaos

Tunisia’s President On Limits of Human Rights and Shari’a Law in a Moslim nation.

Moncef Marzouki: The price of a revolution

Tunisia’s president warns of forces that are intent on disrupting the country’s peaceful movement to democracy. He mentioned in interview, Muslim nations cannot meet four of thirty universal Human Rights conditions: gender equality, freedom of religion and independence of judiciary. Marzouki specifically stated women are not permiited to marry a Jew, a Christian or in any other faith than Islam.

 

Marzouki headed the Tunisian League for the Defence of Human Rights (LTDH) from 1989.

Tunisia PM Hamadi Jebali warns of risk of chaos + video

(BBC News) – Tunisia’s Prime Minister is warning the country could slide into “chaos” unless he succeeds in forming a new non-partisan government in the next few days. Hamadi Jebali has threatened to resign if he fails to do so.

Thousands of supporters of his ruling Islamist party staged a counter-demonstration in Tunis, a day after huge crowds attended the funeral of the assassinated opposition leader Chokri Belaid. Ennanhda accused of violent attacks by thugs.

Tunisia’s leading Ennahda party rejects gov’t dissolution

Shokri Belaid Slain Tunisian politician buried amid clashes

Belaid’s historic funeral stokes tensions in Tunisia

(France24) – People from across the nation flowed into Tunis to lay to rest 48-year-old Chokri Belaid, a lawyer and top figure in the Popular Front alliance who was shot dead Wednesday. Thousands helped carry the coffin of the so-called “defender of the poor” from his parents’ home to the Jellaz Cemetery a few kilometers away.

The funeral “was one of the most impressive in the history of Tunisia,” historian Slahhedine Jourchi said, as demonstrators marched and chanted against the ruling Islamists. The turnout at the funeral was boosted due to a general strike called by Tunisia’s most powerful labor union in honor of Belaid.

Hamma Hammami of the Tunisian Workers Party gave a eulogy as Belaid’s friends and relatives wept. “Sleep well Chokri. We will continue the fight,” the leftist leader promised as the acrid smell of tear gas from the clashes near the cemetery invaded the air.

Basma Khalfaoui, the widow of the slain Tunisian opposition leader tells of ‘daily’ threats  

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